They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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