Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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All we behold is miracle.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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