Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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