In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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.”
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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