How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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