There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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