Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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