The 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.”
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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 path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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