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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
-- William Cowper
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
-- William Cowper
#God #Heart #Men
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“Grief is itself a medicine.”
-- William Cowper
#Grief #Grieving #Medicine
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“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
-- William Cowper
#Life #Giving #Inspire
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“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.”
-- William Cowper
#Sweet #Loneliness #Solitude
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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
-- William Cowper
#Nature #Travel #Names
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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
-- William Cowper
#Love #I Miss You #Missing You
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“In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.”
-- William Cowper
#Buried
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“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
-- William Cowper
#Garden #Gardening #Greenhouses
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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.”
-- William Cowper
#God #Beach #Moving
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“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”
-- William Cowper
#Slavery #Sugar #Pity
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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 Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in”
-- William Cowper
#Cheer #Fall #Fire
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“Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.”
-- William Cowper
#War #Successful #Rumor
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“The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.”
-- William Cowper
#Sight #Spirit #Breathe
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“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
-- William Cowper
#Men #Political #Politics
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“A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
-- William Cowper
#Happiness #Ease #Pursuit
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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
-- William Cowper
#Inspirational #Happiness #Nature
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“How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.”
-- William Cowper
#Prayer #Believe #Petitions
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“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.”
-- William Cowper
#Music #Heart #Air
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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...”
-- William Cowper
#Strong #Attitude #Men
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“This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.”
-- William Cowper
#Home #Race #Attachment
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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.”
-- William Cowper
#Atheist #Easter #Earth
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“O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
-- William Cowper
#Sweet #Heart #Men
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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.”
-- William Cowper
#Dog #Children #Soul
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“The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.”
-- William Cowper
#Sweet #Flower #May
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“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.”
-- William Cowper
#Prayer #Knees #Saint
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“Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.”
-- William Cowper
#Cheer #Tea #Cups
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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.”
-- William Cowper
#Life #Happiness #Purpose
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“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
-- William Cowper
#Inspirational #War #Selfish
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“To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.”
-- William Cowper
#Eye #Thinking #Liberty
