Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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