And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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 rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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