The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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