Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERThe man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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