Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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