Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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