The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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