I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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