Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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