Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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