They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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