The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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?
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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