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.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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