Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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