Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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