Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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