The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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