Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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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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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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