It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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