I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPER