Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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