Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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