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.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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