Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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