Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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