Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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