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?
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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