I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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