Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERHow happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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