The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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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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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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