Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse begets reform.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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 innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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