Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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