The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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