Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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