Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse begets reform.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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