Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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