The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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