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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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