Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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 bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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