A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERHow happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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