Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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