God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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