And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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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 amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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