Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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