Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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