God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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