Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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