All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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