There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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