The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Remorse begets reform.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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