Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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