No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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