Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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