Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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