And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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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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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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