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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

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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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Friend Grant Loneliness Pas Retreat Solitude Sweet Whisper
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?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPER

Behind Face Frowning Grace Hide Judge Lord Providence Sense
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPER

Existence Happiness Life Little Owe
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ever Haughtiness Most Pride Proud Provoked
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPER

Creator Made Man Pride Self Worship
Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPER

Art Baffle Claim Immortalize Painting Quench Time Tyrannic
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPER

Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPER

Devil God Honey Made Men Pride
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPER

Frowned Grace Judge Judging Lord Trust
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPER

Fool Humorous Intellectual Now Right Truth
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPER

Egg Fatal Laid Pleasure Regret Remorse

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