Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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All we behold is miracle.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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