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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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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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