To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERBlind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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