Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
More William Cowper Quotes
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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