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"20 William Cowper Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 November 1731. Died: 25 April 1800 | Poet | Hymnodist |

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees

Satan Trembles Weakest Saint
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Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own

Knowledge Men Wisdom Minds
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

God Moves Ways Wonders
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature Name Effect God
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will

Man Compassion Heart God
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

Variety Spice Life Flavour
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Truth Wisdom Lead Honey
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Abscence Occupation Mind Distressed
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Happiness Depend Nature Exterior
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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.

Meditation Moments Heart Books
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Love Death Hope Despair
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Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same.

Skins Differ Affection Same
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory Selfish Principle Shame
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

Spirit Word Truth Light
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace

Accomplishments Virtue's Wisdom Grace
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

Truth Precious Powers Refine
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Art Poetry Passions Virtue
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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.

Existence Life Happiness Purpose
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

War Game Wise Play at
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

Men Life Children Play
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William Cowper Quotes & Sayings