Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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