The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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