Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERHow sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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