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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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