While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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