Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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