Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Remorse begets reform.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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