And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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