We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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