The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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