God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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