Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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