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 COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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