Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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