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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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