Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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