Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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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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