Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair

Quote by William Cowper

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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling...

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling...

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink...

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink...

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back...

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back...

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths,...

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths,...

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change,...

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change,...

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom...

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom...

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a...

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a...

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in...

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.