The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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