Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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