Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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