When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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