An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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