William Cowper Quotes on Suffering
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair.
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No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone; But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.