Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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