Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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