Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire 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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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