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.
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse begets reform.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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