I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERO solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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