If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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