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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

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

Day Death Every Happier Look
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPER

Exterior Fall Grace Place Taken Wisdom
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPER

Blessing Cloud Courage Fearful Saint Take
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
WILLIAM COWPER

Both Fifty Litle No Other Purpose View World
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
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER

Apealted Blest Blood Chill Each Hear Rude Rudely Supreme Theme Trifling
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
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER

Mind Occupation Quite Relaxation Wisdom
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affection Black Dwell Hold Maintain Same Such
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Alive Assume Being Flayed Habit Strive
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
WILLIAM COWPER

Country Fault Love May Mind Still
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
WILLIAM COWPER

Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate
Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affection Black Dwell Skin White
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPER

Death Die Dust Mightiest Turn Work
After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPER

Abundant After Drought Fall Flower Herb Long Rain Rejoice
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

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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