All we behold is miracle.
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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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