Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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