War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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 innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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And 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.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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