The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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