All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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