Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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 a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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