The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
More William Cowper Quotes
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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