Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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