The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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