It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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