Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERNow stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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