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.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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