The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERSatan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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