Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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