Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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