Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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