Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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