Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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