What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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