Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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