Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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