We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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