Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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All we behold is miracle.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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