Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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