After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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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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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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