The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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