The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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