What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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