Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Remorse begets reform.
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