Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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