The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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