We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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