Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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