The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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