Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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