No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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All we behold is miracle.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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