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,
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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