There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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