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.
WILLIAM COWPERA 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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