The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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