Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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