The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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