Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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