Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
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.
WILLIAM COWPER -
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPER -
Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER -
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPER -
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.
WILLIAM COWPER -
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 COWPER -
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPER