Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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