Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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