Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERWe are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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 bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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