<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537819" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self–Diffidence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Source of love, and light of day,<br>Tear me from myself away;<br>Every view and thought of mine<br>Cast into the mould of thine;<br>Teach, O teach this faithless heart<br>A consistent constant part;<br>Or, if it must live to grow<br>More rebellious, break it now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it thus that I requite<br>Grace and goodness infinite?<br>Every trace of every boon<br>Cancelled and erased so soon!<br>Can I grieve thee, whom I love;<br>Thee, in whom I live and move?<br>If my sorrow touch thee still,<br>Save me from so great an ill! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the oppressive, irksome weight,<br>Felt in an uncertain state;<br>Comfort, peace, and rest, adieu,<br>Should I prove at last untrue!<br>Still I choose thee, follow still<br>Every notice of thy will;<br>But, unstable, strangely weak,<br>Still let slip the good I seek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self–confiding wretch, I thought<br>I could serve thee as I ought,<br>Win thee, and deserve to feel<br>All the love thou canst reveal;<br>Trusting self, a bruised reed,<br>Is to be deceived indeed:<br>Save me from this harm and loss,<br>Lest my gold turn all to dross!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self is earthly—faith alone<br>Makes an unseen world our own;<br>Faith relinquished, how we roam,<br>Feel our way, and leave our home!<br>Spurious gems our hopes entice,<br>While we scorn the pearl of price;<br>And, preferring servants' pay,<br>Cast the children's bread away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537819" data-title="Self–Diffidence de William Cowper" data-description="Source of love, and light of day, Tear me from myself away; Every view and thought of mine Cast into the mould of thine; Teach, O teach this faithless heart A consistent constant part; Or, if it must live to grow More rebellious, break it now! Is..."></div> </div> </div>

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