Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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