I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERA self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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