They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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 bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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