This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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