Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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 mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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