The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERA 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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