Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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