When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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