No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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