God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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