Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERBlind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse begets reform.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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