The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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