We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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