Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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