God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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