While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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