Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
WILLIAM COWPERThe Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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