The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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