A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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