Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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