Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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.”
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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