A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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