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 COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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