Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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