Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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