I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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