Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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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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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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