But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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