God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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 only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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