Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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