There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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