We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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