We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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