How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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