Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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