The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! 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?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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