The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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