Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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 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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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