Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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