We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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