The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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