Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERNow stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
More William Cowper Quotes
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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