Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPER
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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