In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
WILLIAM COWPERTrials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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