Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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