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,
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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