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.
WILLIAM COWPERSatan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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