Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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