No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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