Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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