After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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