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.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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