Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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