Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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