After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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