Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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