While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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