The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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