Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERHow 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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