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.
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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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