Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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