Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Remorse begets reform.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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