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.
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
WILLIAM COWPER