Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERWe are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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