Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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