Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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