Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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