Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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