Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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