Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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