I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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