Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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