Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Remorse begets reform.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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