No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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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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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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