Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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