What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
More William Cowper Quotes
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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