Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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