Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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