Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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