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 COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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 proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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