God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! 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?
More William Cowper Quotes
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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