Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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 kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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