Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPERBut oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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