All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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