When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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 fool must now and then be right, by chance
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