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 COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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All we behold is miracle.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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