The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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