The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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