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 COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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