Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
More William Cowper Quotes
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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