Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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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.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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