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.
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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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