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.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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