The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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