Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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 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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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