Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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