What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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We 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.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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