The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
More William Cowper Quotes
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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