Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERWe are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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 Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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