Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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,
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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