The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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