Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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 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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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All we behold is miracle.
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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.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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