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 COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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