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,
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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