The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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