The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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