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.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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