Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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All we behold is miracle.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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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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