The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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