Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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