Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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