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.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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