All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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