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.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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