…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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