What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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