Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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