God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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