Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Remorse begets reform.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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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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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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