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.”
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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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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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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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