Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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