Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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