The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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