Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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