God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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