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William Cowper Quotes: All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
         

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.


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Grief is itself a medicine.



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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!



Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

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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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