Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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