The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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