Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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