The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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