The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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 fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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