Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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