Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
More William Cowper Quotes
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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