And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPERNow stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
More William Cowper Quotes
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The 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.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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