While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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