Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERThrows up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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 darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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