Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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