Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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