Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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