The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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But 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.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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