Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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