Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Remorse begets reform.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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