All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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