After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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