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William Cowper Inspirational Quotes (332)

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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth Happy who walks with him!
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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
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Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
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There is a mixture of evil in everything we do indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
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If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
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