Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Remorse begets reform.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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