The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse begets reform.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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