God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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