Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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