Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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