God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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