The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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