What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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