Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERTrials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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