Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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All we behold is miracle.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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