Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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