Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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