Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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