Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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