Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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