A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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