Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Remorse begets reform.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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