The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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