Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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