After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERThe man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
More William Cowper Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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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.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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