Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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