It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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