Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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All we behold is miracle.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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