A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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