Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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