Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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