The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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