The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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All we behold is miracle.
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