A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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