While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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