Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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