Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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