There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPERSatan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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