Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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