Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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