The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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