They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
More William Cowper Quotes
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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