Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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