The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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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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