The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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We 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.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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