While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERManner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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