Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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