The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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