Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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