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.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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