A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPERI 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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