I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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