Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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