Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPER
WILLIAM COWPER
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William Cowper138 quotes“Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.”
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
William CowperWilliam Cowper Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
William CowperWilliam Cowper But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William CowperWilliam Cowper I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
William CowperWilliam Cowper Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The still small voice is wanted.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
William CowperWilliam Cowper The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
William CowperWilliam Cowper O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth I can’t dwell on the past, that I haven’t won a lot, but anytime I didn’t play good was mainly because I didn’t putt very good.
John DalyJohn Daly A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli To stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
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