This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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