Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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