The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPEROh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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