Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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