Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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