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William Cowper138 quotes“Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,”
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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.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
William CowperWilliam Cowper And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
William CowperWilliam Cowper And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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.
William CowperWilliam Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William CowperWilliam Cowper I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
William CowperWilliam Cowper There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
William CowperWilliam Cowper No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William CowperWilliam Cowper O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
William CowperWilliam Cowper A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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