Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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