It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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