Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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