Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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