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 COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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