The still small voice is wanted.
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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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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