They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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