Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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