Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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