The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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