Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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