An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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