The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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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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