Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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