Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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