Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERTrials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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And 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.
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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 only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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