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.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The still small voice is wanted.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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