QUOTES by William Cowper
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.
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But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
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Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
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