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.
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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 cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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?
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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