Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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