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 COWPER
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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