A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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