Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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