What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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