God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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