The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The 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,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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