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.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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