It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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