A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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