God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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