The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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