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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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