Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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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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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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