It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Remorse begets reform.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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