The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
More William Cowper Quotes
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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