Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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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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