Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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