Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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