Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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