The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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 bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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