Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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