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 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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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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