Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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