…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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O 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.
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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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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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