The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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