Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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