All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Remorse, 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.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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