The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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