Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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