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 COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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 path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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