The still small voice is wanted.
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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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