What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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