Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPERThrows up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
More William Cowper Quotes
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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