The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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