Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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