Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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