No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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