Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The 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.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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