An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERHow 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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 only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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