If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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?
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