Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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