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 COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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