The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERTo impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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