The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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