I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERTime, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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 rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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