The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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