To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERBlind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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