The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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