No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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