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William Cowper Quotes
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose (William Cowper Quotes)
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend (William Cowper Quotes)
Candid, and generous, and just, boys care but little whom they trust, an error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years that man, when smoothest he appears is most to be suspected? (William Cowper Quotes)
Society friendship and love divinely bestowed upon man, o had I the wings of a dove how soon I would taste you again (William Cowper Quotes)
There is mercy in every place, and mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot (William Cowper Quotes)
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, exhilarate the spirit, and restore the tone of languid nature (William Cowper Quotes)
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, the tempest itself lags behind, and the swift winged arrows of light (William Cowper Quotes)
Am I to set my life upon a throw, because a bear is rude and surly? No - a moral, sensible, and well bred man, will not affront me, and no other can (William Cowper Quotes)
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, will turn aside and let the reptile live (William Cowper Quotes)
He holds no parley with unmanly fears, where duty bids he confident steers, faces a thousand dangers at her call, and, trusting to his God, surmounts them all (William Cowper Quotes)
When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees (William Cowper Quotes)
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more (William Cowper Quotes)
The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man (William Cowper Quotes)
How! leap into the pit our life to save?To save our life leap all into the grave (William Cowper Quotes)
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown (William Cowper Quotes)
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, and hides the ruin that it feeds upon (William Cowper Quotes)