No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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