The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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 proof is not proof of absence.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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