Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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All we behold is miracle.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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