Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
More William Cowper Quotes
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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All we behold is miracle.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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