The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The still small voice is wanted.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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