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Grief is itself a medicine.

Grief is itself a medicine.

William Cowper
Death, Pain, Grief
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

William Cowper
Death, Looks
William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.713

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

William Cowper
Death, Dust, Turns
William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.83

All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

William Cowper
Death, Dream, Flower
William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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