And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER