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Life Quotes by William Cowper
- A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most…
- 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
- Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
- Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him…
- To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect…
- Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
- I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest…
- Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
- Still ending, and beginning still.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle