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.”
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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