The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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