Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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