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 COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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