Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERA self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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