Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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