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 COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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