Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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