A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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