I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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