The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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