An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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