The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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