Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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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 cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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