The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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