I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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.
WILLIAM COWPER