What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! 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?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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