What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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