The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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