Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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