Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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