An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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