Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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