Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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