Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERIf my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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