The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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