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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

William Cowper

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPER

Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPER

Anniversary Delightful Friendship Life Love Marriage Wife
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPER

Exterior Fall Grace Place Taken Wisdom
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPER

Both Goes Hand Idlers Useless Want Watches
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPER

Every Mistakes Reasoning Step Tread
Great 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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
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?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPER

Day Death Every Happier Look
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Flower Luster Perfume Weed Wisdom
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER

Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Inspirational Motivational Proof Suicide
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER

Labor Much Pleasure Tire Tries
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER

Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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