While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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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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