What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERHow happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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