Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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