O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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