[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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