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 COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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