The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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