Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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