I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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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
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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