Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERWe are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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