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 COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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