The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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