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Only Quotes by William Cowper
- The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
- Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
- The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
- There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
- The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is…
- Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd
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