I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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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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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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And 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.
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