Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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