Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERHe finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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