Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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