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 COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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