But 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.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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