A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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