Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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