And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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