The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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