Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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