Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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