Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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