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.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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