The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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