Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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 fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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All we behold is miracle.
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