The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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 path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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