How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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 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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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