Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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