Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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