Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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