A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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All we behold is miracle.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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