What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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