Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPERWould I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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 bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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