While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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 path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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