No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERO solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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