Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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