…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Remorse begets reform.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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