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.”
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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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