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Hymnwriter Inspirational Quotes (3406)

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Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
William Cowper
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We bear our shades about us self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?
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Blest be the art that can immortalize.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
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To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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All we behold is miracle.
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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Laugh at all you trembled at before.
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When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.
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In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.
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Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue the only lasting treasure, truth.
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
William Cowper
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