The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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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.
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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.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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He 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.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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