Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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