It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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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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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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