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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPER

Inspirational Knowledge Life Motivational Proud Wisdom
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Beach God Moving Mysterious Perform Wonder
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPER

Harmony Heaven Love Religious Universal
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Country Fault Love May Mind Still
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Amarantine Earth Flower Only Virtue
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER

Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bitter Bud God Interpreter Olan Sweet Taste Unbelief Vain Will
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affliction Encourage Every Give Great Lot Mercy Place Reconcile
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Exhilarate Languid Music Nature Rural Sight Silence Tone
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Away Darkest Day Hope Passed Tomorrow

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