When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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