If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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