Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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?
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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