There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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