Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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