While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERBut oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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