Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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