A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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