Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
More William Cowper Quotes
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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