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.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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