Alas! 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?
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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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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